SCHEDULECONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS

PART IISUBORDINATE LEGISLATION

Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1987 (S.I.1987/1968)18

1

The Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1987 are amended as follows.

2

In regulation 2(1) (interpretation), for the definition of “appropriate office”13 there is substituted—

  • “appropriate office” means an office of the Department for Work and Pensions;

3

In regulation 19(5)(d)14 (time for claiming benefit), for “Department of Social Security or of the Department for Education and Employment” there is substituted “Department for Work and Pensions”.

4

In regulation 26A(2)15 (jobseeker’s allowance), the words from “except” to the end are hereby revoked.